The Monster Squad (1987) – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?

It’s time for a new episode of our WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? video series, and in this one we’re digging into the making of director Fred Dekker’s 1987 monster mash The Monster Squad (watch it HERE)! To learn what happened behind the scenes of this creature feature classic, check out the video embedded above.

Scripted by Dekker and Shane Black, inspired by the classic Universal Monsters movies (plus Abbott & Costello and The Little Rascals), The Monster Squad has the following synopsis:

A group of youngsters find themselves up against the combined might of Dracula, the Mummy, the Gill Man and Frankenstein’s Monster, who arrive in town in search of a magic amulet.

Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Ryan Lambert, Ashley Bank, Michael Faustino, Brent Chalem, Stephen Macht, Leonardo Cimino, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan, Jonathan Gries, Mary Ellen Trainor, Lisa Fuller, and Stan Shaw star.

This is what the WTF Happened to This Horror Movie series is all about:

Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster, but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs. Either way, we have to ask: WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?

The The Monster Squad episode of WTF Happened to This Horror Movie was Written by Emilie Black, Edited by Joseph Wilson, Narrated by Jason Hewlett, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Some of the previous episodes of the show can be seen below. To see more, head over to our JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!